Question: Exercise 38 introduced two machines that produce wine corks, the first one having a normal diameter distribution with mean value 3 cm and standard deviation

Exercise 38 introduced two machines that produce wine corks, the first one having a normal diameter distribution with mean value 3 cm and standard deviation .1 cm, and the second having a normal diameter distribution with mean value 3.04 cm and standard deviation .02 cm. Acceptable corks have diameters between 2.9 and 3.1 cm. If 60% of all corks used come from the first machine and a randomly selected cork is found to be acceptable, what is the probability that it was produced by the first machine?

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